Pyereus.] clxxii. Ctpeeace^. (C. B. Clarke.) 591 



specimens from 10,000 ft., are 4-6 in. liigh with stem (and leaves) capillary, bearing 

 1 or 2 spikelets only, and may be a new species. 



tt Small or medium-sized, roots fibrous, leaves close to base of stem. 



5. P. nitenS; Nees in Linnsea, ix. 283, and in Nov. Act. Acad. Wat. 

 Cur. six., 8uppl. i. 43 ; small or scarcely middle-sized, umbel simple or 

 reduced to 1 head, spikelets small clustered or shortly spicate linear or 

 linear-oblong straw-colrd. or dusky, glumes minutely muoronate or nearly 

 mutioous, nut small obovoid. Oyperus pumilus, Linn. Sp. PI. 69 ; Qaertm. 

 Pruct. i. 9, t. 2, fig. 2 ; Kunth Enum. ii. 4 (in small part) ; Roxb. Fl. 

 Ind. i. 196 (exel. syn. Rottb.) ; Strachey Cat. PL Kumaon, 74 ; Clarke in 

 Jowrn. lAnm,. Soc. xxi. 43 (not of Rottb. or Nees). 0. nitens, VaM Env/m. 

 ii. 331 ; Kunth Enum. ii. 8; Boeck. in Linnsea, xxxv. 483 [not ofRetz.). C. 

 membranaceus, Vahl. I. c. 330 ; Kunth I. c. 3. 0. punctatus, Roxb. Fl. Ind. 

 i. 193 (ease?, cit. Pliik.). 0. pulvinatus, Nees & Meyen in Wight Contrib. 

 74; Thw. Ewwm. 342. 0. obstinatus, Steud. Syn. PI. Gyp. 10; 0. tor- 

 tuosus, Serb. Roxb.; Wall. Ctei. 3339.— Oyperus, Wall. Gat. 3312 (mainly). 



Throughout India, alt. 0-6000 ft., frequent; from the Punjab to Assam, 

 Cbtion, and Singapoeb. — Disteib. Warm regions of the Old World. 



Annual. Stems tufted, 1-12 in. Leaves often as long as stem, -Jp in. wide, 

 weak. Umbel rays 1-6 in. up to 2-4 in. long, usually shorter, Spikelets 5-30 in 

 a spike, |— | by Jj in., 8-44-fld. ; rhachiUa slender, persistent. CUvmes boat- 

 shaped, 3-5-nerved, back green, sides pale nerveless, keel (in the Indian form) nearly 

 always excurrent recurved. Stamen in the Indian plant usually 1 (in large examples 

 sometimes 2). Nut compressed, brown, nut 4 as long as the glume. 



6. P. pumilus, Nees in Linnsea, ix. 283 ; annual, umbel simple, spike- 

 lets spicate oblong 6-10-fld. much compressed, glumes on back 3-nerved 

 green, sides 2-3-nerved pale, keel excurrent recurved, nut broad ellipsoid 

 flattened. Cyperus tyalinus, Vahl JEnum. ii. 329 ; Kunth Enum. ii. 3 ; 

 Miq. Fl. Ind, Bat. iii. 254 ; Boeck. in Linnxa, xxxv. 482 ; Clarke in Jowrn. 

 Linn. Soc. xxi. p. 46 ; Ridley in Forbes Fast. Archip. 520. 0. pumilus, 

 Nees in Wight Coivtrib. 74 (excl. all syn.) ; Kunth I. c. 4 (in great part, not 

 of Linn) C. strictas, Wight ms. (not of Roxb.) ; Wall. Cat. 3336, 

 partly. 



Madeas ; in riee-fields, Wight, Leith. — Disteib. Timor. 



Stems 2-8 in. Leaves as long as stem, ^ in. wide, weak. Umbel rays 3-7, up 

 to 2 in. long. Spikelets 4-12 in a spikelet, not clustered, i by ^ in. Glumes 

 almost glistening on their pale or yellowish nerved sides. Watohtase, ashy -black, 

 more than i length of glume. 



7. P. capillaris, Nees in Linnsea, ix. 283 and in Mart. Fl. 

 Bras. ii. -pa-xB. 1,9; umbel apparently simple or condensed into 1 head, 

 (see var. y) spikelets clustered linear many-fld. much compressed straw- 

 colrd., brown or black, nut small ellipsoid compressed apiculate chest- 

 nut-bla(&. Oyperus globosus. All. Fl. Pedem. Auctuar. 49 ; Reichb. Ic. 

 PI. Orii iii. 26, t. 229, and Ic. i^i. Germ. viii. 32, t. 279, fig. 665; Boeck. 

 in Linnxa, xxxv. 458 ; Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. xx. 279 and xxi. 47. 0. 

 flavidus, Decne. in Nouv^. Arm. Mus. iii. 359 (not of Setz. or Roxb.). 0. 

 capillaris, Kcenig. ms. ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 194 ; Nees in Wight Contrib. 76 ; 

 Balz. & Qibs. Bomb. Fl. 283. 0. Lamarckianus, Sehultes in Roem. & Sch. 

 Syst. ii. Mamt. 108 ; Kunth Fnum. ii. 9. 0. vulgaris, Sieber ms. ; Kunth 

 I. c. 4. 0. mucronatus, Moritzi Verz. Zoll. Pfl. 95 (vot of Rottb.). 0. flaves- 



